"Did I come to Ireland without God or according to the flesh?"

- A Treasury of Irish Folklore

"She turned and headed east, still dancing to the music, her long train flowing out behind her."

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

"Drizzt rushed the two on his left, both of whom wielded single swords, while Kelnozz worked to fend off the third."

From "The Dark Elf Trilogy - Collector's Edition"

"Killer whales and sharks keep the human population nice and manageable, and nobody starves."

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

"So now what?"

Without Fail (a Jack Reacher novel) - by Lee Child

And in the High Speech, his voice filling with the old thunder of command, Roland demanded:" Who are you demon?"

The Gunslinger - SK

When Maria entered the theater for the first time after her Chicago triumph, svelte, blonde, and bubbling, she was delighted to see Toscanini. - Callas- Portrait of a Prima Donna

"Pull tight, ensuring that the short ends do not pop out."

"Similar attacks followed day after day, and work had to be continued throughout the night, so that even the sick and the wounded could get no sleep."

The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar

I sang it three times and he said splendid and he said it was never too soon to start on your religious education.

The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt

"Show that the equation of the path is the parabola y= 0.578x - 0.016x^2"
Mechanics textbook.

"No! By the great Sachem, no!"
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"The definition in Webster fully covers the present dispute; and it leave open for further examination, when necessary, the question whether other than manual labourers can be said to be parties to an industrial dispute".

"Now, how am I gonna get the rock to Jay?"

Loose Balls by Jayson Williams

"A scrum is formed in the field-of-play when eight players from each team, bound together in three rows for each team, close up with their opponents so that the heads of the front rows are interlocked."

USA Rugby Handbook 2003

"It's our limitations that keep us sane."

The Spiral Dance, Starhawk

"Sarah was interested that people then thought their ideas worth putting on paper."

Idioglossia, Eleanor Bailey

must ask that you pay in advance.....

A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Making of a Tradition by Lee Mendelson

It rather lowered the odds on there being any next week to speak of.

<u>Good Omens</u> by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

"this guy looks in good shape" Henry said.

At the stroke of madness by Alex Kava

5 and 13 lines

-Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

"They were almost insanely serious about the security."

-- HS Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt

okay that one wasn't very good.

"A climber at the end of a rope ties into the harness with a knot such as the rewoven figure-8 or the rewoven bowline."

-Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills 6th edition

its talking about how to tie into a climbing harness

great book for anyone that does any mountaineering

"Maybe we're not as brainy-smart as Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, but we can tolerate some shit to make our story work."

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

"Presque un espoir: 'Il reviendra...'
Sorry it's in French guys!
L'Appel des Arenes by Aminata Sow Fall

וְכִי תִזְבְּחוּ זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים, לַיהוָה--לִרְצֹנְכֶם, תִּזְבָּחֻהו

from the torah, 3rd book (ויקרא) by G-d

"It was a crazy story"
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I am hoping that they are saying you shouldn't do this to win people over. :lol:

Very interesting reading. Let's see what I have near me.
hmmmm.. let's see....

NB It can be dangerous to rely too heavily on a being outside ourselves.
- A Dictionary of Dream Symbols Eric Ackroyd

"As tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be at the end of the world, and the wicked shall howl in Hell for ever."

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

"All was contained within the ultimate demon's perpetually raging consciousness, since he had consumed everyone here."

-Constantine

This is fun...I'll try again....

"Let's have some gas!" cried Tom roughly.

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If market prices are not available at the date of acquisition of several securities, it may be necessary to defer cost apportionment until evidence of at least one value becomes available." -- Intermediate Accounting Volume II, by Kieso, Weygandt, and Warfield

Amazing how much triviality they pack in between useful facts.

"Brom brushed the dust from his tunic and turned back to his subordinates."

Dawn of War by C S Goto

costly adj. 1 expensive, dear, exorbitant, extravagant; informal steep.

Oxford Minireference Thesaurus, 1999.

--disclaimer... i needed some fluff. too much tough thinking this week. but this made me laugh.

" 'Everyone there was thrilled I'd been flossing.' She look at them. 'What's up now?' "
Faking It Jeniifer Crusie

but next to it was the DSM IV so...
"For each disorder in this section, the etiology is either a general medical condition (although the specific general medical condition may not be..."

"It's more like boar hunting than anything else - except that boars don't have hands, and they do."

Joel Rosenberg - Not Really the Prisoner of Zenda

PARASOL ANTS
These South American ants are not carnivorous.

Firefly Pocket Guides: Animals of the World

Strange. I was pretty sure I had posted to this thread before (with something from Spell Law.) In any case, at the moment, the first thing that comes to hand is <i>Designing Great Beers</i> by Ray Daniels (ISBN 08937381500). Here goes:

"I think you will find both types of information will stimulate your thinking about how a style might be brewed."

Well that was lame. Before I noticed that sitting on my desk, the nearest book on my left was the Time Life book, <i>Middle Eastern Cooking</i>:
"[Wheat] would also grow well if planted lower down, on the more fertile plains and foothills."

Also pretty lame.

To the right, then, Fritz Leiber, <i>Ill Met In Lankhmar</i> (ISBN 1565049268):
"If the Guild knew our looks or where we lodge, they'd have been nastily on our necks days, weeks, nay, months ago."

"Grandfather was looking at me but he was seeing Mother"
--A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle